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Milner

Milner

Richard Steyn

JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS SA
2022
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'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial Times and Economist journalistFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jan Smuts, a revealing new account of Empire-builder and First World War Cabinet minister Lord Alfred Milner.Alfred Milner was one of Britain's most famous empire builders who both contributed to the Allied victory in the First World War and left an indelible imprint on the history of South Africa. Yet his legacy is contested and little understood.Largely responsible for the Boer War - a conflict marking the beginning of the end of the British Empire - afterwards Milner helped to unify South Africa, but brewed resentment among Afrikaners. In Britain, from 1916, Milner was part of Lloyd George's five-man War Cabinet, and the driving force behind the Imperial War Cabinet which increased the status of Britain's Dominions.In this comprehensively researched, first full-length biography by a South African, Richard Steyn argues that Milner's reputation should not be solely defined by his eight years' service in South Africa. If he was the wrong man to send to that country, he was the right person in a far greater international conflict.
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Milner

Milner

Richard Steyn

ICON BOOKS
2024
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'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial Times and Economist journalistFrom the acclaimed biographer of Jan Smuts, a revealing new account of Empire-builder and First World War Cabinet minister Lord Alfred Milner.Alfred Milner was one of Britain's most famous empire builders who both contributed to the Allied victory in the First World War and left an indelible imprint on the history of South Africa. Yet his legacy is contested and little understood.Largely responsible for the Boer War - a conflict marking the beginning of the end of the British Empire - afterwards Milner helped to unify South Africa, but brewed resentment among Afrikaners. In Britain, from 1916, Milner was part of Lloyd George's five-man War Cabinet, and the driving force behind the Imperial War Cabinet which increased the status of Britain's Dominions.In this comprehensively researched, first full-length biography by a South African, Richard Steyn argues that Milner's reputation should not be solely defined by his eight years' service in South Africa. If he was the wrong man to send to that country, he was the right person in a far greater international conflict.
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The Misery of Dave Milne

The Misery of Dave Milne

Dave Milne; Jeff Milne

Jeff Milne
2010
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This is a play about Dave Milne (an immigrant, military school survivor/victim, Ivy League graduate, Naval officer, 10% disabled veteran, dissident philosopher and much more) adapted by his son, from recordings made of Dave in the last six months of his life.The play travels from a fairly normal childhood until age 12, to being sent off to a fancy military boarding school and being literally tortured and ostracized by the children of the rich (and sometimes famous), his classmates. Then he went on to Columbia University, to participate in NROTC, got married, eventually went to Vietnam, had a mental collapse after returning home and just three months later, he became a parent. Dave then had to struggle in the civilian economy to try to support his family.While the play is generally tragic, there is a fairly large amount of humor (dark and otherwise) along the way and Dave even breaks into song once.While Dave might not always be a sympathetic character, his take on life is one of a kind. This anecdote filled play shows Dave in virtually the whole range of human emotions.
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David B. Milne

David B. Milne

David Milne; David P. Silcox

University of Toronto Press
1998
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David Brown Milne (1882 - 1953) was one of the great artists of his generation in North America, according to the American art critic Clement Greenberg, who compared Milne with John Marin and Marsden Hartley. This comprehensive and fully illustrated Catalogue Raisonné of Milne's paintings is the first catalogue on this scale to be published for any Canadian artist, and it will be a standard for many years to come. The nearly three thousand paintings in oil and watercolour that David Milne produced in his long career are presented here in chronological order. There are also two hundred large-format colour reproducitons of his work. Milne has long been a favourite of artists, art historians, curators, and collectors, and his high intelligence and fine sensibility are evident on every page of this remarkable work. Over a span of more than fifty years Milne devoted himself to painting and also to writing about painting - assessing his achievements against his goals, analysing aesthetic problems, describing a sequence or process, illuminating the origins of his inspiration. He wrote many hundreds of pages of notes, letters, and autobiographical accounts, most of them directly or indirectly about his art. Substantial quotations from his writings make the Catalogue Raisonné a highly readable reference work. Each entry in the catalogue contains a black-and-white reproduction of the work, the basic information about the medium, size, and date, its full provenance and exhibition history, all printed references to it, a complete list of the documents in which it is referred to, and supplementary information, such as comments by the authors, related drawings, and cross-references, as appropriate. Short essays introduce each period of Milne's life, providing useful biographical details and information on the paintings and their subsequent history. The Catalogue Raisonné also contains the major lists of paintings prepared by Milne over the years, key documents for any study of his work. There is a list of nearly six hundred exhibitions in which his work appeared with full details and a 1600-item bibliography. A comprehensive title index is also included.
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The Milne Papers Volume 3, 1862-1864

The Milne Papers Volume 3, 1862-1864

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2023
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Volume 2 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896. Milne remained notably shy of publicity. In the words of one biographer he was known as 'that able and hard-headed Scotchman'. However he was the pre-eminent naval administrator in the Victorian period, perhaps of the years 1815-1900. Not once during 60 years of naval service did Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. hear British guns fired in anger, yet, on the basis of talents and abilities ideally suited to the century of the Pax Britannica, he numbers among the greatest officers of the post Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. He served as a Junior Lord for almost twelve straight years during the late 1840s and 1850s. His earlier years in the Navy were spent at sea but in 1846 he was appointed a Naval Lord of the Admiralty. There he was to remain for the next eleven and a half years, serving, successively, the Ministries of Lord John Russell, (Whig, 1846-52), Lord Derby (Conservative, 1852), Lord Aberdeen (Whig/Peelite coalition, 1852-55), Lord Palmerston (Whig, 1855-58), and Lord Derby again (1858-59). He was gazetted with the civil K.C.B. in recognition of his lengthy service at Whitehall, in particular his labours during the Russian (Crimean) War. He possessed in abundance both patience and discretion. He stated however that 'When I joined the Admiralty in December 1847, it was under the distinct understanding with Lord Russell, then Prime Minister, and Lord Auckland, the First Lord of the Admiralty, that I was to be entirely free from all political matters.
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The Milne Papers

The Milne Papers

John Beeler

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2025
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This collection covers the period February 1862-March 1864, which constituted the final two years and one month that Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne commanded the Royal Navy’s North America and West India Station. Its chief focus is upon Anglo-American relations in the midst of the American Civil War. Whilst the most high-profile cause of tension between the two countries — the Trent Affair — had been resolved in Britain’s favour by January 1862, numerous sources of discord remained. Most turned on American efforts to blockade the so-called Confederacy, efforts that often ran afoul of international law, not to mention British amour-propre. As commander of British naval forces in the theatre, Milne’s decisions and actions could and did have a major impact on the state of affairs between his government and that of the US.While noting in one private exchange with the British ambassador to Washington, Richard, Lord Lyons, that he had been "enjoined to abstain from any act likely to involve Great Britain in hostilities with the United States," Milne added ominously, "yet I am also instructed to guard our Commerce from all illegal interference" and it is plain from his correspondence that both he and the British government were prepared to use force in that undertaking. Thus, between apparently high-handed behaviour by the US Navy and Milne’s and the Palmerston government’s resolve not to be pushed beyond a certain point, the ingredients for a major confrontation between the two countries existed. Yet most of Milne’s efforts were directed toward preventing such a confrontation from occurring. In this endeavour he was joined by Lyons and by the British government. No vital British interest was at stake in the conflict raging between North and South, and thus the nation was unlikely to become directly involved in it unless provoked by rash US actions.Yet there was no shortage of such provocations: the seizure of British merchant vessels bound from one neutral port to another, detaining such ships without first conducting a search of their cargo for evidence of contraband of war, the de facto blockade of British colonial ports, apparent violations of British territorial waters, the seizure of British merchantmen off the neutral port of Matamoros, Mexico, and the use of neutral ports as bases of operations by US warships among them. In responding to these and other sources of dispute between the US and Britain, Milne proved adept at pouring oil on troubled waters, so much so that in a late 1863 letter to Foreign Secretary Lord Russell, Lyons lamented his impending departure from the station: "I am very much grieved at his leaving….No change of admirals could be for the better."This collection centres upon Milne’s private correspondence, especially that between him and Lyons, First Lord of the Admiralty the Duke of Somerset and First Naval Lord Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Grey. It also includes private letters to and from many of Milne’s other professional correspondents and important official correspondence with the Admiralty.
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Life According to OH Milne

Life According to OH Milne

Oh Milne

Writer
2021
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About the Author The "pen" OH Milne evolved from a dream, something from my Geneseo experience at college, the school library, actually. 'Life According to OH Milne' covers writing's, past and present. 'The Kong Flue Chronicles', a walk through the strangest of year's, 2020, runs the short story gamut from an overaged cyber slacker in his basement and his doting mom, to a rebel Reverend and his flock, to an eye-opening White House Cabinet meeting, to a struggling out-of-work couple from Honduras, to a Hollywood director "escaping" the pandemic with his family to a bunker in South Dakota, among others. It was written in July 2020. "Nutballs, Nutwings & Other Delirious Things' is the antidote to censorship in America, an decidedly anti-'WOKE' statement, featuring (in two interwoven tales) today's reality of 'Drag Queen Story Hour'...one viewed through the lens of a throwback Mom, who'd be better suited living in Mayberry...her object of derision, 'Clarabellina', suffering a hangover and headed for an engagement at the Michelle Obama Library. 'The Debate Rages On-A Podcast' doesn't pull punches, a bit of political commentary of the day...combining the controlling forces of neo-liberalism, Identity Politics, and mass censorship, with a challenged election result...along with other vignettes from a year that truly wasn't. 'Nutballs' was written in January, 2021. 'Alexandria & Leopold-A Survivor's Tale' is an endearing adventure about a little brother and sister, from Puerto Rico, tossed asunder by the ravages of Hurricane Maria, in 2017, and their surprise trips around the globe...all thanks to a beneficent Albatross. It was, also, penned in July, 2020. 'Sampson Hoards Another Nut' is a beauty, spun from the ages (June '16), featuring the forest creatures, a rampaging flying squirrel, 'Sampson'...the diminutive cherry-cheeked chipmunk, 'Charise'... 'Owsley', the pontificator and a cosmic Eurasian Eagle Owl, named 'Shirina', who makes the barn scene happen from the distant land of Kathmandu. Hopefully, you like this collection. It's a book of humor.
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